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Computer Awareness Mixed Quiz: Set 8

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  • Difficulty: Medium
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Set 8 of the Computer Awareness mixed quiz has 20 multiple-choice questions from 9 different topics of the subject: MS Word, Windows and File Management, MS Excel and more. 12 of them were asked in real previous-year papers. A topic quiz checks one chapter; this set revises the whole subject at once, the way an exam paper does, where the next question can come from any chapter. Every question carries an explanation of why the correct option is right and why the others are wrong. Keep to the timer, read the explanations at the end, and go back to the notes of any topic where you slipped.

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20 questions with answers and explanations

Q2.Computer AwarenessAsked in: RRB NTPC · 06 Jun, 2025, Shift 2Medium

Consider a hierarchical file system. If a user attempts to delete a non-empty directory using a standard 'delete directory' command without any recursive options, what is the most likely outcome?

  1. A.The operating system will automatically delete all files and subdirectories within it.
  2. B.Only the directory structure will be removed, leaving the files and subdirectories orphaned.
  3. C.The operating system will prompt the user for confirmation to delete each item within the directory.
  4. D.The operating system will return an error indicating that the directory is not empty
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Correct answer: D. The operating system will return an error indicating that the directory is not empty

The plain remove-directory command is built to delete an empty folder only. In Windows it is rmdir, also written rd, and in Linux it is rmdir; both stop with a message such as "The directory is not empty" when anything is still inside.

Q5.Computer AwarenessAsked in: Rajasthan · RSSB Informatics Assistant 2018 OfficialEasy

Use of internet to connect a wide variety of devices, machines and sensors for empowering brick and mortar stores by giving them the same access to data that online stores have is a facility falls under which of the following technologies?

  1. A.Artificial Intelligence
  2. B.Deep Learning
  3. C.Machine Learning
  4. D.Internet of Thing
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Correct answer: D. Internet of Thing

The Internet of Things means giving everyday objects — machines, sensors, meters, shelves, vehicles — an address on the internet so that they can report what they sense and be controlled from a distance.

Q9.Computer AwarenessAsked in: Haryana · HSSC Staff Nurse 2019 Official PaperEasy

Which out of the following is used as an electronic spread sheet?

  1. A.Microsoft Word
  2. B.Microsoft Power point
  3. C.Microsoft Excel
  4. D.Microsoft Access
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Correct answer: C. Microsoft Excel

An electronic spreadsheet stores data in a grid of rows and columns and recalculates its formulas whenever a value changes, and Excel is the spreadsheet program of the Microsoft Office suite.

Q11.Computer AwarenessMedium

Which shortcut key inserts a page break in an MS Word document?

  1. A.Ctrl + Enter
  2. B.Shift + Enter
  3. C.Alt + Enter
  4. D.Ctrl + Shift + P
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Correct answer: A. Ctrl + Enter

A page break ends the current page at the position of the cursor and pushes everything after it to the top of the next page, so that a new chapter or a new heading always begins on a fresh page even if the matter above it is later edited.

Q12.Computer AwarenessAsked in: Rajasthan · 9 Sept 2018Medium

National Digital Library of India is a project of which one of the following ministries?

  1. A.Ministry of Finance
  2. B.Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
  3. C.Ministry of Information Technology
  4. D.Ministry of Education
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Correct answer: D. Ministry of Education

The National Digital Library of India is a single window that brings together lakhs of learning resources, from school books to research papers, and lets a student search them free of cost in many Indian languages.

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